American Decades
"When is a Painting Finished?"
Magazine article
By: Paul Gardner
Date: 1985
Source: Gardner, Paul. "When is a Painting Finished?" ARTnews 84, November 1985, 89–97.
About the Author: Paul Gardner worked for The New York Times as a staff writer and assistant editor of the Sunday Arts & Leisure section. He was a contributor to A Faulkner Perspective, Franklin Library. He wrote the screenplay La Decade Prodigieuse, with Claude Chabrol. Notable assignments include an exclusive interview with Leni Riefenstahl, the German film director. He was also a contributor to periodicals, including Transatlantic Review, Plays & Players, ARTnews, and London Sunday Observer.
Introduction
As with all arts, painters approach their work in a variety of ways. Paul Gardner chose fourteen painters to whom he posed the question "When is a painting finished?" The answers...
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